skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm inferring your assumptions based on what would logically cause a person to continue the conversation in the manner you are.

And this has been a hilarious exhibition for all parties involved.

I proposed a simple way to prove remote viewing without needing to have a complete theory for why or how it works. You assumed I was playing gotcha with an impossible test. Instead, I proposed an impossible-to-debunk way to prove you're right. You continued to ask if I "tried it" yet while insisting you don't care what I believe. And now you say

> Again, you're lost in this imagining trying to make your 'not trying' about other people or excuses. It's not. Just about you.

And, like, this is obviously projection. I don't need supernatural powers to realize this.

You've been cascading your own misunderstandings to the point of ridiculousness.

Yet all I was doing was say, "Hey, if you do this, you'll have an irrefutable outcome that will give any skeptic pause".

If you had any intuition for analytic thinking, it would be clear that proposing such a test makes me on your side, not against you.

But no, you instead continue to respond in a way that is best explained by assuming that I wanted to fill James Randi's shoes.

I'm a goddamn furry. It's in my username. I never made any attempt to obfuscate this. I spend a lot of free time with people who aren't just "playing pretend" online, but who are significantly psychologically comforted by calling them their fursona species. And I have no trouble squaring objective biological materialism with "here's an easy button to make a friend feel better". When it comes to remote viewing, I'm agnostic. I have no strong opinions either way. That you keep insisting I'm here to discredit you or your beliefs is your own insecurity screaming through the actions and context of your words.

I don't need a fucking crystal ball to see it. Maybe you do.
It's likely a function of the fact that `gen_random_uuid()` is implemented in C [0], and is essentially just reading from `/dev/urandom`, then modifying the variant and version bits. Whereas, assuming they're using something like what was described here [1], that's a lot of function calls within Postgres, which slows it down.

As an example, this small function that makes UUIDv4:

postgres=# CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION custom_uuid_v4() RETURNS uuid AS $$
SELECT encode(set_byte(set_byte(gen_random_bytes(16), 6, (get_byte(gen_random_bytes(1), 0) & 15) | 64), 8, (get_byte(gen_random_bytes(1), 0) & 63) | 128), 'hex')::uuid;
$$ LANGUAGE sql;

Took 14.5 seconds to create / insert 1,000,000 rows into a temp table, compared to 7.1 seconds for `gen_random_uuid()`.

[0]: https://doxygen.postgresql.org/uuid_8c.html#a6296fbc32909d10...

[1]: https://blog.daveallie.com/ulid-primary-keys/
Good question. Quickbooks, Xero, and Wave are all owned by publicly traded companies.

(H&R Block owns Wave.)
In my experience, if you can make a reasonable guess as to the total contained information about your topic within the given size of model, then you can be very specific with your context and ask and it is generally as good as naive use of any of the larger models. Honestly, Llama3.2 is as accurate as anything and runs reasonably quick on a CPU. Larger models to me mostly increase the surface area for potential error and get exhausting to read even when you ask them to get on with it.
This is not my experience, but it depends on what you consider "competitive" and "serious".

While it does appear that a large number of people are using these for RP and... um... similar stuff, I do find code generation to be fairly good, esp with some recent Qwens (from Alibaba). Full disclaimer: I do use this sparingly, either to get the boilerplate, or to generate a complete function/module with clearly defined specs, and I sometimes have to re-factor the output to fit my style and preferences.

I also use various general models (mostly Meta's) fairly regularly to come up with and discuss various business and other ideas, and get general understanding in the areas I want to get more knowledge of (both IT and non-IT), which helps when I need to start digging deeper into the details.

I usually run quantized versions (I have older GPU with lower VRAM).

Wordsmithing and generating illustrations for my blog articles (I prefer Plex, it's actually fairly good with adding various captions to illustrations; the built-in image generator in ChatGPT was still horrible at it when I tried it a few months ago).

Some resume tweaking as part of manual workflow (so multiple iterations with checking back and forth between what LLM gave me and my version).

So it's mostly stuff for my own personal consumption, that I don't necessarily trust the cloud with.

If you have a SaaS idea with an LLM or other generative AI at its core, processing the requests locally is probably not the best choice. Unless you're prototyping, in which case it can help.
I’m on zsh and it’s definitely an upgrade for me.

I want to say though, great work on this migration! Really fantastic work that others can learn from when they try a similar migration.
The GOP supported it, then Trump told them not to vote for it because it would help Biden, and then they followed his instructions.

It wasn't DOA for the Republicans; they negotiated the bill.
> if a $60,000/year software engineer in America turns up their nose to a contract, you can simply send it to a development firm in Pakistan for pennies on the dollar and get roughly equivalent results.

People who live in Pakistan are also capable of making moral decisions, you know. Your argument only holds if there are infinitely-many people in some kind of idealised labour market, but in the real world there are less than a million people capable of that kind of work.

If you plan to take an immoral job and then work-to-rule while sabotaging the evil schemes, charismatically deflecting all blame to those who were trying to make it succeed (or, better still, keeping the organisation as a whole from understanding that their plan has been sabotaged), then that's a different question, and I'd wish you the best of luck. (Not that such a person would be bragging about it here, anyway.)
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>Why do people ask “please” to an LLM

did you ever notice how your google-fu got worse over time, as google adapted their technology for the mass market? I predict your LLM-fu will also deteriorate.

I'm not saying "good for Google, what they did there", I'm talking about how you will experience the world.
I believe current research says the root cause of homelessness is lack of affordable housing in a city. Drugs and mental illness are important, but still secondary factors.
I agree that it's unethical, my point was that it's easy to say that it is the price for innovation and in the end if the innovation is large enough, the unethical action is fine ("they solved world hunger and brought us world peace, and you complain about a little bit of initial price gouging?"), and who knows what good intention they might have (probably none, but it's good PR to pretend).

Do you consider 'hacker' to be tied to some ethical concept? Makes it a difficult definition to work with because you and I will draw the line of "justified by the intentions" (e.g. invading privacy of 1, 100, 1m to draw attention to some big issue) in a different place, and on top of that a hacker will stop being a hacker when they overstep the line?
I know ariadne well enough that I'm pretty confident that the headline will have been chosen out of annoyance rather than click maximisation.

That doesn't mean I agree with the conclusion (I am ambivalent and would have to think rather more before having an opinion myself) but I'm reasonably sure of the motivation nonetheless.
Reminds me a lot of Smoke Winamp plugin from Geisswerks. Looks almost identical, actually. Pretty sure he used GPU acceleration to write it back when that was a pretty rare feature for 2D effects.

http://www.geisswerks.com/about_smoke.html
Updation. That’s a new word for me. I like it.
Yeah, staggered rows of keys is what my muscle memory knows and whay I wouldn’t mess with it. Maybe for new generations who don’t want to wear our baggage but are these standardized yet?
Ah, the slippery slope fallacy!
I love the idea of small homes for everyone, and I'd want to help with similar projects in my areas. This is inspiring.

Separately, I absolutely love the "lite" aspect of this news web page. Clean, simple, quick, with an easy button to load an image? Yes, please! More of this!
+2 for ripgrep. Modern PCRE regex with lighting speed.

I run into so many issues trying to adapt the regex in my head (usually PCRE) into the older grep and egrep style.
>> within reasonable cost

> pair of ebay RTX 3090s

So... 1700 USD?
I love playing with it at UltraHigh quality and 1 solver iterations. It reminds me of gradually incorporating one ingredient into another when cooking: like incorporating flour into eggs when making pasta.
This is conflating static linking with how the distribution handles updates. If a language is always statically linking dependencies (like Go or Rust), the distribution will have to rebuild everything that depends on a patched package whether or not they are using the language's native tools or some import into the distro package system.

What I'm specifically suggesting is:

* Distributions package *binaries*, but not the individual libraries that those binaries depend on.
* Distributions mirror all dependencies, so that you can (in principle) have a completely offline copy of everything that goes into the distribution. Installing a binary uses the language-specific install tools to pull dependencies, targeting the distribution's mirror.
* Enough dependency tracking to know what needs to be rebuilt if there's a security update.
* Any outside dependencies (e.g openssl) will continue to depend on whatever the distribution packages.
* Dependencies are not globally installed, but use whatever isolation facilities the language has (so e.g, a venv for python, whatever npm does)
Because those are the most desirable places to live. Homeless people move too.

Granted, there are homeless people who have a stable life but work a job that just doesn't pay enough to afford a home, or people who are between jobs and are temporarily homeless. But those people generally sleep in a car, cause few problems, are largely invisible, have most of their needs met in some way, and are generally not the people we are concerned about when talking about "the homeless".

The Homeless™ usually have more complex issues like untreated psychological issues, drug problems, etc. And while the previous group would rejoice about small cheap housing, it does little to solve the issues of The Homeless™.
Interesting note:

> For a head of a famous company, he is little known.

> Even with specialized search tools, Reuters could find only six different photos of Radvinsky online.

Instantly obvious that he is not dumb.
And you think I posted that, expecting "hero treatment"?

That's the problem, right there, I guess. We can't even mention things that should not elicit anything much more than "That's nice," without someone thinking that it's tubthumping. I wasn't inviting criticism of my decision. Sorry.

Sometimes (most times, actually), I post stuff, just to say "Me too," or "Here's my experience with that. Maybe it might help." I'd like to think that it helps others to maybe feel less alone, in their world.

People mention that they do stuff, all the time, here, with the direct expectation of being lauded and cheered. In many cases, I'm really happy to laud them, and cheer them on. There's some cool stuff that goes down, here.

I'm not really into that kind of thing, for myself. I'm retired, and follow my own muse. I've made some big impacts, but not really ones that most folks here would care about. What people here, think of me, doesn't really matter that much. I'm just not that important, and most folks here, aren't as important as they might think they are. We're all just Bozos on this bus. I have a fairly rich social life, and have a lot of people that like me (and, also, dislike me), because they actually know me.

People also post some stuff that reveals some fairly warped and mutated personal worldviews. Most times, I just ignore that. I don't think attacking someone in public does much to help the world; especially in a professional context like HN.

We live in a strange society.
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Most expensive homes yes, but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of livable homes and apartments that are _empty_ at any given time. Canada has a lot of vacant houses.
There is a conference phone network hosted by eventphone. The most popular way to access it is indeed using DECT handsets, but you can also access it via SIP (probably the second most popular method), GSM (yes, really, they used to hand out SIM cards), landline (supports rotary phones!) and probably even more esoteric ways. There's also a post office delivering mail both internally and externally.
The below resources touch on some ethical considerations, but are certainly not all inclusive. It is, imho, a living concept and dynamic. Are there good or bad Hackers? Or Hackers (and how their brain operates) just humans who do good or bad things? Do you stop thinking and being such a way when you cross a line?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic#The_hacker_ethics

https://archive.org/details/TheHackerEthicAndTheSpiritOfTheI...
One last thing Toner-Rodgers found about the lab’s AI tool: The scientists didn’t like it all that much, with 82% reporting reduced satisfaction with their work.

While many AI optimists believe the technology will reduce the number of tedious tasks people have to perform, the scientists felt that it took away the part of their jobs—dreaming up new compounds—they enjoyed most. One scientist remarked, “I couldn’t help feeling that much of my education is now worthless.”

“A key, creative part of the process was automated,” said Toner-Rodgers. “People just might be unhappy with that permanently.”
> Yes, the agency does the terrible things you mention, but it also gets some horrific stuff off the streets. (Think fentanyl and meth, not weed. I couldn't care less about that.)

Do they, though? Some of it, sure, but enough to make a positive impact? Probably not. Indeed, efforts to get drug X off the street often lead to a proliferation of more dangerous drug Y. There's plenty of reason to believe the DEA is only making things worse and causing more deaths.
CBC is government funded. Like 1.4 billion a year. With all the Bureaucratic overhead, they can only afford to hire a basic html guy. So it's accidentally great.
Does this happen anymore? I feel like if one had knowledge of javascript/image/whatever zero day exploit, there would be more profitable uses for it than blowing it spamming random people via an ad network. OP's example is a much lower hanging fruit, you don't need to have a fancy browser exploit if you can just trick someone into running your code. Just like all the cracked video games you can download that are loaded with viruses.
Why would you waste time in Good models when there are great models?
The largest nuclear power plant in North America, Darlington Nuclear Generating Station in Ontario, a bit east of Toronto, uses robots for handling the fuel rods. The plant was designed in the late 70s and the control software is apparently written in PDP-11 assembler. And they will keep using it for the remaining lifespan of the plant. So probably long after I retire and I'm not old. Now that's an idea for any young coders looking for a language that'll still be in use when they retire; they were hiring maintenance engineers to help keep it running a few years back. Maybe a bit of a dead end skills wise but some of it'll transfer to the embedded VAXen that still run half the assembly lines in the same region. (That career advice is sarcastic - probably.)
Taxis and short-stay-rentals got innovated, even when there were pretty clear regulations that had to be broken/ignored.

I suspect the bigger problem here is that there's no (or not nearly enough) money at the end of the rainbow of solving the homelessness problem.
Same person that both contributed the code of conduct to Alpine and later got caught bragging on twitter about having bullied people out of the project.

The work of someone who did not ask themselves the necessary questions, but now its some years later and things have changed.
Right. I’ve never worked in the kernel space, but I wanted to understand the author.

As you mentioned, event handlers still only care for certain messages and ignore others, so the disambiguation must happen.

Rereading it; what’s also not clear to me is whether epoll is a single queue, or one queue for each subsystem and handle type.

From a handler’s perspective, it seems like an implementation detail?

Again, I don’t know about this stuff; just hoping someone knowledgeable can help clear it up.
Synchronous I/O is actually better than async for many programs, partly because almost all async systems were designed without thinking about priority inversions and can't resolve them properly. If you have futures, you have this problem.
This comment is hilarious because the term used to be "vagrant", and then it was changed to "homeless" because people were offended by it. Society truly has reached a new level of being offended.
> If you care to test your theory, that you can criticise who you like in the U.S., I suggest you protest Israel, loudly and often.

People do, and are.

Go to China and protest about Tiananmen Square. You'll be picked up, and put away in minutes, no due process, no independent court, nothing. Who knows what happens to you, or when you get out.
I don't think most are primarily concerned about war applications, but simply driving mass unemployment.

This even seems to be the exact goal of many who then probably imagine the next step would then be some sort of basic income to keep things moving, but the endless side effects of this transition make it very unclear if this is even economically feasible.

At best, it would seem to be a return to defacto feudalism. I think 'The Expanse' offered a quite compelling vision of what "Basic" would end up being like in practice.

Those who are seen (even if through no fault of their own) as providing no value to society - existing only to consume, will inevitably be marginalized and ultimately seen as something less than.
Please don't start tedious nationalistic or ideological flamewars on HN. Or any flamewars.

This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Edit: we've unfortunately had to ask you about this repeatedly for a long time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577037 (Sept 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39281820 (Feb 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35656288 (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34844518 (Feb 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18585046 (Dec 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18575831 (Dec 2018)

If you keep it up, we're going to have to ban you, so please stop posting like this to HN.
I was an exclusive user of Crucial for memory and storage until about a year ago. My general thought was that:

- It would give me a trusted supply chain, since the company makes the silicon; and

- I would have a credible standing behind it, which wasn't likely to want to tarnish its reputation cutting corners.

The thinking was very much along the lines of "No one got fired buying IBM." And I think it was pretty correct for most of the past quarter-century. Historically, storage had a lot of counterfeits and shenanigans, and a credible vendor was nice. Price/performance for memory was adequate; there was a modest premium.

However, post-2020, I bought a defective Crucial DIMM (and didn't find out it was defective until I was past the return window). The RMA experience was strange. Crucial said they could either:

- Replace it with an inferior part with different, slower timings, which may or may not have worked in my system

- Give me a quickly-expiring store credit for "fair market value" (never disclosing what that was, and stopped responding to emails when I asked)

Neither of these was helpful at all.

Reading online, there were many similar stories, unfortunately. They seem to be going the same direction as Sandisk / Western Digital. I replaced it with a cheap TeamGroup DIMM which worked without problems.

I'm not quite sure what to do about the continued enshitification. There seem to be almost no credible brands left.
Looks like this kind of soft / euphemistic language dates back to even earlier than that. Here is a YT clip of George Carlin railing against it in his 1990 special:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o25I2fzFGoY
Parts of it certainly were. I built a somewhat widely deployed feed widget back in ~2009/2010 that worked via JSON-P and public access.

I assume this is all ancient history now and a distant memory to most, but there was an era where Twitter’s API was a ton of fun to work with.
Even with opt-in a vendor will keep harassing the user until they tap "yes" in an inattentive moment.

And I've been in situations where I noticed a box was checked that I'm sure I didn't check. I want to turn these things off and throw away the key. But of course the vendor will never allow me to. Therefore I use Linux.
Epoll Is Fundamentally Broken (2017)
That reminds me of how Dell was (still?) used different PSU/motherboard power connections, and at one point the physically matching connectors with different pinouts meant Dell PSUs would fry regular motherboards or vice-versa.

This sounds like more of the same, a kind of uncaring that shades into hostility.
Just look at the other comments: any time someone mentions sex, somehow people get stupid. I think the flags come from at least two directions: those who are opposed to anything sexual, and those who are fed up with the cess pits these stories become on HN.

It’s a shame these things cannot be discussed here, but at the same time this is probably not the best demographics for this kind of topics.

Now that I write it, I will probably be wrong, but I don’t expect this story to remain on the front page for long.
Americans: I'm not anti-China, just anti-CCP

Chinese: I'm not anti-west, just anti people who are anti-China
I mean every index from health to social mobility.
> Yeah, which he did in 1970.

Yes, and Forth has been maintaining somehow its ties with aerospace for over 50 years: https://www.forth.com/resources/forth-apps

> That this design paradigm holds up pretty well in a primitive computing world when things are simple and demands are low, and is thoroughly useless to keep on promoting today?

Apparently some people are still interested in it: https://www.mpeforth.com/news-gossip-and-rumour/

Did you know that desktops, servers and smartphones together is a tiny fraction of the total number of processors running in the world?
> I kept asking young people about the public intellectual landscape in China - who are their equivalents of Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Lex Friedman, and Sam Harris? The sense I got is that this kind of popular intellectual ecosystem just doesn't exist there

I have never heard of Sam Harris, but are the other 3 the prominent examples of American intellectual ecosystem? I haven’t listened to them a lot, but in the couple examples of Friedman’s or Rogan’s podcast episodes I listened to, they let their guests say whatever anti-intellectual bs they wanted, without trying to correct the guests. Maybe I chose the wrong episodes?
Ok that is a different thing, America tolerated this situation. So did the rest of the planet, including all of the Arab states.
That's a lot of requests.
Technical folks might. Non-technical folks fall for this kind of thing in phishing attempts often enough that I can see the confusing complaint having some merit.